VIDEO: COVID-19 Lockdown: “I am just selling this fish for selling sake, I need to hold money for hand. There is no money to feed the children..., Read here:
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, which has so infected over 200 in Nigeria, the federal government announced a lockdown on Ogun, the FCT and Lagos, the current epicentre of the pandemic which has killed thousands across the globe.
The federal government on April 1 relaxed the lockdown rules by announcing that only shops and stalls selling food and groceries would be allowed to open to customers in states where a lockdown was imposed, between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. every 48 hours or less frequently. A visit to the market on Friday between 2:30 and 3:30 pm showed that both the buyers and sellers appeared to have forgotten about the existence of coronavirus as everywhere was congested with people trying to buy and sell wares.Some of the traders attributed the hustling and bubbling of the market to ‘hunger’ while some said both lockdown and social distancing were ‘myths’ for the poor in Nigeria.
“I am just selling this fish for selling sake, I need to hold money for hand. There is no money to feed the children. I only witness lockdowns during election period and it is for one or two days, two weeks is too much,” she said The Karu market was also open during the approved hours with a massive influx of residents who jostled one another and failed to keep the social distancing measures.In the innermost parts of these communities, residents gathered in tightly clustered groups, most outside their houses to play games such as luck. In some scattered fields, our reporter also noticed groups of young men playing football, oblivious to the dangers of not maintaining social distancing.
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